Technorati Does Tags 91
Ian@FalsePositives.com writes "Technorati (a search engine for blogs) has a new 'tag' service. If your blog tool of choice uses Categories, has a RSS/Atom feed, and pings technorati, then you're done. If not, you can add tags via a new tag markup. The twist is that Technorati is working with Del.icio.us (a social/sharing bookmark manager website) and Flickr (a social/sharing photo web site) to read their tagged content! So Flickr pictures, Del.Ico.us bookmarks, and blog posts all on one page! Here's an example result for the tag Toronto. There is some documentation as well. One current limitation is that there is no way to do tag intersection as with del.icio.us (i.e. http://del.icio.us/tag/toronto+food ) like http://www.technorati.com/tag/toronto+Food.
Tagging (also know as Folksonomies) was the topic recently on Slashdot: Folksonomies In Del.icio.us and Flickr."
Technorati is News for Nerds (Score:5, Interesting)
Right now their search engine is a little rusty, but it won't take much for them to tune this into something very cool.
The first question that I asked them when interviewing was: "Why you instead of Google." Their answer was intriguing.
They are interested in what people are talking about on the internet right now. One thing they noted: Google actually dings you on pagerank if people are linking to you currently. On Technorati's engine, you get extra bonus points if people are linking to you right now.
Also, whereas Google crawls the web every couple of weeks, Technorati crawls the whole blogosphere almost real-time. How they do that is a trick I would probably get sued to tell you, so figure it out yourself.
Meta Tag... (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Technorati is News for Nerds (Score:3, Interesting)
Isn't this because the distortion of pagerank that dense crosslinking of blogs was creating and thus making it harder to find the information you were looking for?
I remember doing google searches and finding the first page to be blog results, but I haven't recently had a similar experience.
Does this make sense, or is my brain not working at half two in the morning?
Re:Technorati is News for Nerds (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Blog-O-Mania (Score:1, Interesting)
Even when your blog is boring and the content just recycled stuff - at least you can pollute google and many other services.
You know, when I've searched for something on Google, and the first hit is a blog, instead of whining about it, I've followed the link and found what I was looking for. I'd hardly call that pollution.
No matter how many links, words and tags you track - they all won't tell you if an entry is any good, if the content is well researched and well written.
So in other words we might as well give up on search engines? Fact is, a computer can't tell if something is well written, but the fact that lots of people have decided to link to it might be a bit of an indicator.
Amen to that. (Score:4, Interesting)
But this is the first Slashdot article I've seen in about a year that I had to read twice, and I still don't understand wtf they are trying to do, the how or the why, anything.
How, exactly, does such a thing differ from Google?